Child Victims Act: The accused

1of11A poster board listing accused perpetrators in the Diocese of Albany is shown as Jeff Anderson announces 20 lawsuits filed against the Albany Diocese on the first day the Child Victims Act at the Hilton Albany on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019 in Albany, N.Y. The act allows a one-year period for claims to be filed regardless of the age of the plaintiff. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union2of11Rev. Joseph Romano in 1972 (Albany Times Union) WW3of11Bishop Howard Hubbard in April 9, 2014. (Skip Dickstein / Times Union)SKIP DICKSTEIN4of11

Eugene Hubert, undated photo.

5of11A poster shows the locations of perpetrators in the Diocese of Albany is shown as Jeff Anderson announces 20 lawsuits filed against the Albany Diocese on the first day the Child Victims Act at the Hilton Albany on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019 in Albany, N.Y. The act allows a one-year period for claims to be filed regardless of the age of the plaintiff. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union6of11Filed cases in the Diocese of Albany is shown as Jeff Anderson announces 20 lawsuits filed against the Albany Diocese on the first day the Child Victims Act at the Hilton Albany on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019 in Albany, N.Y. The act allows a one-year period for claims to be filed regardless of the age of the plaintiff. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union7of11Survivor Jeanne Marron points to her abuser, Fr. James Vincent Hanney, on a board of perpetrators in the Diocese of Albany during a press conference where attorney Jeff Anderson, left, announced 20 lawsuits filed against the Albany Diocese on the first day the Child Victims Act at the Hilton Albany on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019 in Albany, N.Y. The act allows a one-year period for claims to be filed regardless of the age of the plaintiff. Survivor and advocate Bridie Farrell stands at right. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union8of11Survivor Jeanne Marron hugs attorney Jeff Anderson next to board of perpetrators in the Diocese of Albany during a press conference where Anderson announced 20 lawsuits filed against the Albany Diocese on the first day the Child Victims Act at the Hilton Albany on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019 in Albany, N.Y. The act allows a one-year period for claims to be filed regardless of the age of the plaintiff. Survivor and advocate Bridie Farrell stands at right. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union9of11Attorney Jeff Anderson, center, announces 20 lawsuits filed against the Albany Diocese on the first day the Child Victims Act at the Hilton Albany on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019 in Albany, N.Y. Survivor Jeanne Marron, left, attorney Cynthia LaFave, second from left, and survivors Bridie Farrell and Mark Lyman stand at right. The act allows a one-year period for claims to be filed regardless of the age of the plaintiff. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union10of11Attorney Cynthia LaFave speaks during a press conference where Jeff Anderson announced 20 lawsuits filed against the Albany Diocese on the first day the Child Victims Act at the Hilton Albany on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019 in Albany, N.Y. The act allows a one-year period for claims to be filed regardless of the age of the plaintiff. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union11of11Attorney Jeff Anderson, left, points to a list of perpetrators in the Diocese of Albany as he announces 20 lawsuits filed against the Albany Diocese on the first day the Child Victims Act at the Hilton Albany on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019 in Albany, N.Y. Survivors Bridie Farrell and Mark Lyman stand at right. The act allows a one-year period for claims to be filed regardless of the age of the plaintiff. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union

A number of lawsuits alleging sexual abuse within the Albany Roman Catholic Diocese were filed Wednesday.

What follows is a list of some of the religious leaders and others who were accused of sexually abusing children:

Rev. Sean McMahon, a former priest at Sacred Heart Church in Cairo, accused of abusing a 16-year-old in 1984.

Rev. Gary Mercure, a former priest at Our Lady of the Assumption in Latham, accused of abusing a child from ages 10 to 12 in 1974 to 1976. Mercure was convicted in Massachusetts in 2011 of raping two altar boys from Warren County.

"Father John" (last name unknown), a former priest at St. Mary's Church and School in Troy, accused of abusing a 13-year-old child between 1965 and 1966.

Brothers Connell Bernard and Charles Fritz, employees at Albany's LaSalle School, are accused of abusing a 14-year-old in separate instances between 1955 and 1956.

Rev. Joseph Estabrook, is accused of abusing a student between the age of 14 and 16 between 1969 and 1971 at St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church. He died in 2012.

Brother James Vincent Hanney is accused in 11 complaints of sexually abusing male and female students at Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons High School in Schenectady in the 1970s. He is believed to be living in the Philippines.

Sister Benedict Marie, a nun at St. Joseph's Infant Home in Troy, is accused of abusing a five-year-old in 1946. She died in 1995.

Rev. Thomas R. Gilmartin is accused of abusing a 10-year-old child in St. Margaret Mary Parish in Albany in 1971.

Msgr. Francis X. Ryan is accused of abusing an altar boy between the age of six and nine between 1963 and 1966 at St. Patrick's Church in Troy.

Rev. John F. Fitzpatrick, a former priest at Sacred Heart Church in Castleton-on-the-Hudson, is accused of abusing a teenager between 16 and 17 between 1976 to 1977.

Efforts to reach the accused through the Albany diocese or the orders they belonged to were not successful.

The Times Union is only naming plaintiffs who had previously agreed to be identified as victims of sexual abuse in past newspaper report. It is the newspaper's practice to not name alleged victim's of sexual abuse.

Note:A previous version of the article indicated that in the early 1960s, Rev. John Klebauskas was a priest at St. Joseph's parish in Troy and he is accused in court filings of abusing a child there. At the time, the parish was called St. Lawrence. The church merged with St. Joseph's in 1984 and took on that name. St. Joseph's is named a defendant in the suit filed Wednesday.